Tuesday, February 2, 2016

Captain Z

Time travel. Very
cool. Very dangerous. First time we tampered with time travel we inadvertently
created a parallel universe. Soon more
mistakes were made and we’d created a host of parallel worlds. It was time to get things under control and
establish some rules. That’s when the
Paratime Cops came to be. Their mission was two-fold; prevent the other universes
from discovering time-travel, and monitoring time-travel activity from UTL-Prime. “UTL” stands for universal time line, and
prime? Well that’s us, the original.

My name is Jay. Most
folks call me Captain Z. I’m considered
one of the best time cops there is. Or
was. I’ve just decided to retire. Shocked everyone. At 120 years old I probably had another
decade or two of work left in me. But,
sometimes you just have to pick a spot and enjoy the ebb and flow of life
around you. “There’s no time like the
present," they say. I figured it was time
to find out.

One of the benefits of being a time cop is you are allowed
to retire and setup on one of the alternate time lines if you so choose. You will occasionally send in reports to
UTL-Prime HQ to help watch for anomalies and host a cop or two when they need
to visit your timeline. A few years back
I found this little backwater colony on a desolate planet called Oizys. Yeah, Oizys, that’s the Greek goddess of
misery. You’d believe it if you saw the
planet. The whole planet has one little “civilized”
colony named Lively. Population
24. I think the name was meant to be
optimistic, but sounds more like a joke now.
Anyway, that’s where I’m headed. I
think this little town needs a bar and grill…

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Last year I had the thrill of being "miniaturized" by Jay over at Jay's Miniature Enterprises and the miniature "me" got inserted in one of his adventures. Jay's web site is one of my favorite blogs on the web. Always entertaining and always inspiring me to be more creative with my toys. So I have been wanting to return the favor. My sci-fi gaming seems to have split into two paths. One is a space colony on the fringe with rugged adventurers. It's basically a setting like the TV series "Firefly". The other is the Ion Age. Space Opera with knights and lasers. Then I thought it would need to be able to link them all together in parallel universes. Reading some short stories by H. Beam Piper fed me the Time Cops. Jay and his bar became the link to tie it all together.

Finding a 15mm bartender was not easy. I had some civilians from GZG sitting in the lead pile. Each pack comes with a pair of each figure. I found one I liked for Jay, but he had a rifle. That seemed fine if he gets in a scrap, but doesn't look right for a bartender. So, I chopped off the gun and his arm and sculpted a new arm on the extra figure. He's also carrying a cup now. Here's some work in progress shots below.

Greetings, Rocky. You've got the Cap'n pegged in the right hole. What can be better in the early early morning than a hot cup of Jungle Joobee's super hot coffee! And where'd you find that ol' blanket of mine. Now I can finally get a good nite's sleep again. (Blankety-blank Weezers.)